Mobile & Interactive Art (Contest) CPS 004.1, 25 July 2002

To reinforce the previous assignments and to make sure you are getting the hang of things, we announce the CPS 4 Mobile and Interactive Art Contest! The last art contest produced some neat designs, so we were inspired to let you do it again.

This time, we will have an Instructor's Choice and Student's Choice winner. The Instructor's Choice will be chosen by the course staff, while the Student's Choice will be chosen by all of you in class. Winners will receive extra credit points. Everyone must to produce a good faith entry to get full credit for this as an assignment.

Requirements and Rules

Your original art work must be produced using the GP package on a classroom PC and must heavily utilize both behaviors and interactions. You should work in teams of two. Your art work must be titled and some details given about the algorithm used to create it. If there is anything subtle about how you interact with your work of art, then you should provide instructions for that as well. Some basic requirements are:

There must always be something in motion.
Clicking an object with the mouse should change things (either for a limited amount of time or permanently).
This is supposed to be "art", thus it should be attractive and/or interesting.

Judging (by the staff) will be based on

Originality
Aesthetic appeal
Program style and elegance
Simplicity of the programs (the simpler the better, all things being equal)

Grading will be based on the above but you should get close to full credit if the basic requirements are met.

Swapping Partners

Remember that you must change partners with each assignment. You may come back to the same partners only every third assignment. Also note that working alone is not necessarily seen as a strength.

Credit Toward your Last Test Score

Extra credit opportunities are available in regards to the last midt-term exam. Good submissions will earn modest credit toward that exam score. The maximum that can be earned for this purposed is one half of the difference between 60 and your actual exam score. Extraordinary submissions (especially those winning a "medal") will be able to earn as many as 12 points toward that score.

What to Submit

You should make a new project for each entry. When you are finished, you and your partner should transfer the entire project folder created by Visual J++ to your respective public_html/cps4 folder in the acpub system and update your course web page to link to the newly transferred project using the guidelines given here.